query re AAVE

[Alice Faber]

Oh, believe me it does. On sports forums, he's regularly referred to (by
non-Yankee-fans) as "the big eunuch". But, given the general class of
nicknames on these fora, I wouldn't attribute this particular one to
phonological convergence; similarity is enough.

Matthew Gordon wrote:
> the substitution of [k] for final [t] could make for some fun plays on Randy
> Johnson's nickname.
>
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> On 7/18/06 10:35 AM, "Alice Faber" <faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>> I'm thinking I might have heard such a substitution in callers to NYC
>> sports radio (some of whom have other clear-cut AAVE phonological
>> features). I'll keep my ears out.
>>
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